the stories that shaped this week the blockade of the libyan town of bani walid proved more deadly with reports of chemical weapons being used against the remaining population we bring you witness accounts from the battle scene. tens of thousands united to show a bank in italy and spain calling on their governments to stop enforcing a sturdy measures which they call a social massacre. the final presidential debate between barack obama mitt romney fails to give either the lead while third party candidates defy a media blackout to suggest alternative policies.

the back of the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. the apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians humanitarian crisis stranded refugees and more deaths the reality for the libyan town of bani walid this week the residents there are calling for international help as pro-government militias continue to shell the former gadhafi stronghold has been gathering eyewitness accounts from the besieged town and you may find some of the images in the final report graphic. these are the pictures the world has chosen not to see dismembered bodies random killings dying women and children for three weeks the libyan city of bani walid has been under siege armed militia gangs patrolled the streets leading houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately if you want to shoot all most of whom most. people are so concerned for the safety of

their families they don't want to be identified. why it was can you want to fight it harms and shouted indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families are with us at the moment yes they were fled to the valley but they were firing into even their their families who died in the shelling children died to their frightened by women and children the straight to the head it started with the order for the army to use all means necessary to rid the former gadhafi stronghold of all his supporters there were accused of kidnappings and murdering of former militia men credited with capturing the libyan leader last year i would nurses and doctors on the scene say people are being fired at with gas folder shells r.t. sources report seeing militia trying to hide and remove the bodies of those killed by chemical weapons and i can confirm that these militias used internationally prohibited weapons they used phosphorous bombs and nerve gas we have documented all

these and videos were recorded the missiles they used on the white phosphorus raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded or shot they died as a result of gases the red cross is to me it's more than twenty five thousand people have so far been made homeless with fiji's who in the confusion of the past few days trying to return home after the army announced the city had fallen and they're now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic look at this. this is good this gun and this be able now this shorting out why you don't know one week now this libyan go outside and does it know what they were doing when i was leaving when i think when when one of the government. i saw explosions and rockets about our heads i saw the dad. but the general national council denies the killings despite the evidence to the contrary where the government for third. place where

i would go as high that of course they will be. flowing with what we have all been to the whole thing is being handled better frankly we are taking care of all the family and it's not only the libyan authorities that are in denial western governments and mainstream media have also chosen to be silent prompting the charge of double standards to be leveled at them let's think back to carry twenty eleven we couldn't because they were us or put on the b.b.c. or c.n.n. without hearing about what was going to be a humanitarian disaster. the killing lots of people and today the situation leverage much worse you've got a humanitarian catastrophe taking place we've got massacres going on at the moment and silence complete silence here the chaotic scenes of a throwback to the long running rivalry between wizards of bani walid and misrata a city khadafi laid siege to they also show the weakness of the new government's authority of

a former rebel militias which only to be gins but essentially do what they like. power so it's a leech is a message to all of them across libya wherever they are whoever you are and however strong you are and whoever your backers are the revolution should win it's a years and some evolution came to this oil rich country but little seems to have changed for ordinary libyans many of the crimes gadhafi was accused of are now being laid at the foot of the general national council a reminder that for many the arab spring turned out to be a very cold winter here r.t. beirut. russia has called on the u.n. security council to urge the libyan authorities to resolve the bunny wanted conflict peacefully the proposal however was blocked by the u.s. which took part in the bombing campaign last year under the guise of protecting civilians from then leader muammar gaddafi. reports from new york. while the united nations has focused much attention this week on the ongoing conflicts in

syria and mali russia's efforts to address the death and destruction taking place in libya was blocked by the united states washington refused to support a security council press statement drafted by russia calling for the resolution of violence in bani walid which has been under siege for weeks the u.s. delegation cited a further need for consultations meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.n. . says that it's quite strange the u.s. would have a press statement condemning the use of force in dealing with libya's political problems just one month after i deadly attack in benghazi claimed the lives of four diplomats ambassador churkin said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegation actions in a rational terms now russia has dropped her statement called on the living authorities to take urgent steps to resolve the conflict by peaceful means and to preserve the rights of all libyan citizens that also expressed concern about the

significant escalation of violence in and around the city of bani walid. will be following the volunteers and we'll bring you up to date with developments in the besieged. the latest peace effort for syria fell apart this week with at least two terrible things an arduous attack took place in the capital damascus where at least five people were killed and many more injured by car bomb explosion that happened during a proposed four day ceasefire to mark the muslim holiday of ied which some rebel groups such as the radical al nusra front rejected outright another call to carry on fighting came from the leader of al qaeda who criticize world leaders for their loose grip on the syrian regime international affairs analyst says the truce plan was doing to fail. the government agency in syria.

including the united states. or turkey itself or they leave the country kate burns your money is providing support so they were even thought for we know that they're awaiting procured and that's well they don't want really it's they want to remove the government of syria from there but surely. they were able to meet that they got the momentum they got the support from the outside world and they say that they're not going to abide by the states it's because they haven't been pressured by the like them perhaps they have even been told not to support this use for. ukraine is choosing a new parliament in an election that could bring about a few surprises exit polls it just doesn't get it because it has taken the lead but it may need to form a coalition to hold on to power on we have will bring us the details shortly. but first tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of italy and spain on

saturday and anger over tough economic measures being forced upon them the show of discontent turned ugly in a northern italian town where police used tear gas and battens to disperse the crowds but sara first reports the struggling public is still determined to get its message heard. getting back to to stere say people a year of the continuing to fight against this in measures that are biting deeper and deeper into the public and private of many usa nations clashes with police break out in the north of italy of thousands marched against the government in the capital reign in what was dubbed and monte de similar things we witnessed in the trades west bank his time there on the us to rally against never ending government cuts we feel like we are now under a percentage by our government that they are doing this that we are no we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen as

hysterics youngest spread across year thousands of people have taken to the street and it's not just in madrid for in greece to italy big you're using countries and small this is the year a crisis that doesn't discriminate affecting people of all ages and from all walks of life here in spain the unemployment figures now top a whopping twenty five percent this is a younger generation that's been hit the hardest in the stats for the country you see that half the sixteen to twenty four year olds in the house of work everything you sing preceding unemployment poverty. the ferns. in people here police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more a growing to live with that of g.t. you'll find many of them joining the much. lower enforcement a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protesters the great break. many times

before and still they tell us nothing change. is actually not to cut their spending but to invest more in the economy to invest in growth to make sure that there are jobs and the only way to. get out of this is to grow not just cut your way out of that so one of the main arguments of the people here is that if you actually listen to the people who are not your. interests from abroad you will come up with a lot more sensible and a lot more rational response to this was a dogmatic insistence on austerity has seen successive governments across the isolated from their electorate and amongst the year remembers themselves divisions a widening a explains witnessing this independently a bit faster than a year in the basque country those demanding freedom and let things that would take politicians meanwhile police is fighting an upsurge of radical nationalist sentiment is leading to the grace of far right and fascist greats things like these

make it hard to believe that earlier this month even is awarded the nobel peace prize bringing stability and unity to the previously want to own continent some protesters are calling it a social muska with a massive euro white strike planned for later this month it seems as long as things continue as they are there will be no peace here sara fat r.t. . growing stronger reaches the skies over the united states american officials the popular pakistani politician off his flight to question him over his opposition to washington's deadly strike. got that story out of it after a short break. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and

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this is a week later naughtier the news continues now all polls have closed in ukraine in parliamentary elections which could pose problems for the country's president for tea on a curve which exit polls suggest that his party is leading the vote but he has no overall majority the opposition is planning to impeach the president if they win enough seats and now the battle to form coalitions may decide the final outcome of his election is in ukraine's capital kiev. as it stands the five boxes which are making it into the parliament it will most likely form new coalitions and likely that the ruling party will continue having its majority has been having for the last two or three years or so the opposition has been saying that as soon as it

gets the majority in the new parliament it will reach the president on the goal of it's the biggest question now and the biggest i'm saying is whether the former boxing champion. or his own political party has managed to get very impressive results according to the exit polls with about fifteen percent whether she will be able to be willing to join the opposition and the opposition which is led by the jail to hold the prime minister of ukraine. thus they will have the majority in parliament and they will be able to impeach the president but that is the result of all the reports there is a parliament the situation may change if the majority receives provided this which makes three for the ruling party but that such course will be clear within the next two or three days we are expecting of course changes to happen if the current polls that's the results prove to be correct in the long run but it will certainly be waiting what's the official results will be and we will deliver them into our to

suicide as we get them within the next several days. to the us now where this week failed to bring any clarity as to who's likely to be the next president democrat and republican candidates are effectively neck and neck some diversity was brought into the race by the third party debates which offered a different slant on the key issues only t. was one of the very few media outlets taking any notice there was some of the highlights. the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial we are on the road toward to him and that's not an exaggeration the biggest threat to our national security is the fact that we're bankrupt we need to retrench rather than trying to be the policeman of the world we need to put an end to the use of drones and actually lead not to lead this development of a new arms race but to lead in an international treaty and the convention to

permanently banned the use of drones we're printing and borrowing money to the tune of forty three cents out of every dollar we spend. sixteen trillion dollars is bearing down on ad as johnson say and we could well be right germany after world war i. the final face off for the third party presidential candidates will be brought to you exclusively by us altie in a week from now the two front runners came together for their third debate this week focusing on u.s. foreign policy but those who were expecting some frank ideological exchanges were left disappointed with barack obama or mitt romney once again displaying striking similarities u.s. foreign policy analysts and then explains the reasons behind that. one of the mistakes that people make is that they think that this is a debate between two men and i think what's important to do is to see who basically

are the groups of advisors and the hoop of people at the high end the president and the groups of people behind romney are really the same people that the iraq war and what they called the neo conservatives they want a much more aggressive foreign policy that americans don't want that a majority of americans don't want to fight a war with iran seventy percent of them don't want to do it unilaterally americans want to cut military spending that's what the polls show so what what romney had to do was to sort of back away from a lot of those positions except on military spending and seemed much more reasonable and sort of centrist if he sort of plays out what's really in his cards i think it into scaring a lot of people and you end up losing votes and so that was part of what was going on there he was trying to move more toward obama and so there wasn't a debate. special coverage of the u.s.

presidential campaign will continue on air and online introducing a fresh perspective on the race starting this coming monday will be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges in depth so do stay with r.t. for that. what lies ahead for occupy will the movements mobilize calls for a new america who stands for the ninety nine percent u.s. election a close guide monday october twenty ninth on r.t. . the high profile pakistani politician imran carmen has been interrogated by u.s. officials ovaries and drawing views pulled off a plane to new york he had to explain the details of his campaign against deadly american airstrikes in pakistan the former cricket star has asked for an apology but as artie's i mean it ghoulish going to reports washington remains unrepentant about its controversial program. killing the civilians of one country in the name of security of another the united states has been doing just that for over eighteen

years and pakistan. there are terrorists holed up in those who murdered three thousand americans they are plotting to strike again federally administered tribal areas burn bright red on the map that's where u.s. drone attacks have been killing thousands of people claiming the majority of them are militant extremists a study led by scholars from new york and stanford university's found that only around two percent of the total number of deaths were militants among the remaining several thousand victims of drone attacks hundred seventy five were children the fact of the matter remains the u.s. has been carrying out military operations in a country that it is not at war with and the international community says almost nothing about actions which are illegal by international standard that seems to have the opposite. that's the tox the.

joint i think the. worst since the what they thought was. back in the day islamabad and washington were all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with the persistent taliban problem though there was a cool off in the relationship in the one nine hundred seventy s. when pakistan began working on its nuclear bomb the valves were removed in the wake of the two thousand one world trade center bombing and the ensuing war on terror presently however there seems to be no love lost in this match and on strikes on. counterproductive but it didn't on the phone lines very. again focus on solving the . it's not just the buzzing of the drones however that threatens pakistan's integrity but was great as one of the greatest feats of the fight against terrorism . this as a nation of islam of bin laden was a military operation carried out in secret and without knowledge of the pakistani

authorities. then came the killing of twenty four pakistani soldiers in the u.s. led air strike forcing islamabad to close down the nato supply routes for seven months it was reopened only after an official apology from the u.s. secretary of state but with pakistan itself calls to cut off cooperation or submission as many see it to the u.s. get louder with every passing week pakistanis believe the united states may be getting a lot of money to their government but is it the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people in islamabad. and the country's troubles don't end with drone strikes as pakistan suffers religious violence on the ground at least five people have been killed and twenty five wounded in the powerful blast outside a sunni muslim shrine in north west pakistan

a senior police officer was among those injured they want to claim responsibility so far but some militant movements including the taliban have been blamed for previous attacks of this kind. he says the u.s. is bracing for hurricane sandy which is due to hit on monday night it's already left over sixty people dead in the caribbean new york is set to close its public transportation system over fears sandy could with winter weather front and become a superstorm the presidential election campaign has impacted to. cancel events. well in just a few minutes from now or two tells the story of the nuclear bomb tests in australia that were conducted without warning the local aboriginal people who later suffered before from the atomic weapons.

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